Marius Roodt
Marius Roodt is currently deputy editor of the Daily Friend and also consults on IRR campaigns. This is his second stint at the Institute, having returned after spells working at the Centre for Development and Enterprise and a Johannesburg-based management consultancy. He has also previously worked as a journalist, an analyst for a number of foreign governments, and spent most of 2005 and 2006 driving a scooter around London. Roodt holds an honours degree from the Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg) and an MA in Political Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand.
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The morning after the night before
There are few certainties in life, apart from death and taxes, but there is something else that is a growing certainty in South Africa. This
SA belongs to her people, not politicians
Sometimes politicians say things that confirm what we know about them. It may be a throwaway remark or a pattern of language, but once people
Bad day at the office for ANC in Wednesday by-elections
The ANC got a bloody nose on Wednesday, losing two wards in by-elections, while retaining one ward in eThekwini. The DA held on to a
Pitfalls for the Wild Dogs: lessons from abroad
Coalitions are increasingly becoming a fact of South African political life. Until a few years ago very few of South Africa’s municipalities were governed by
Government is swimming upstream trying to get migrants to return
Emigration is a perennial topic among middle-class South Africans, and in the last few years it seems more people (of all races) have been considering
New electoral system proposal for SA not fit for purpose
A new electoral system is on the cards for South Africa, but what has been proposed is, frankly, a mess. The new system will be
There are people behind the numbers
By now we all know the numbers and the scale of the crisis that South Africa faces. On the expanded rate of unemployment, nearly 50%
An electoral threshold for South Africa?
The recent local government elections resulted in a number of watershed moments for South African politics, notably the decline of the ANC’s share of the
Lessons from Monday’s election
The local government election at the beginning of this week could possibly be called what Americans describe as a ‘realigning’ election. It is the first
Will the ANC ever grow up?
I recently spent a weekend away with some university friends. We were all together in one of the residences of the erstwhile Rand Afrikaans University